Regina clemencie Maria vocata

Medicus

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Last line for the harp project. I’m reading these lyrics from a manuscript from around 1260; the lettering looks sort of uncial (?), so I’m having trouble reading and the “clemencie” might be “clemenae”, but the manuscript info reads “clemencie”.
For this one, I thought it might mean, “Maria called clement queen”. “Queen of clemency”?

If it helps, my harp playing is better than my Latin and, finally, thank you again.
 

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It looks like the preferred spelling is clementia for "clemency," and then classical genitive would be clementiae, but then in medieval times, the -ae could get shortened to -e. Could the c be a t? If not, I suppose it could be a variant spelling.
 
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